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  • Climate Change in World Politics

    by J. Vogler ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). He considers how the international system treats the problem of climate change, analysing the ways in which this has been defined by the international community and the interests and alignments of state governments. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Shock Phenomena in Granular and Porous Materials

    Edited by Tracy J. Vogler, D. Anthony Fredenburg ...
    Series series Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena
    Granular forms of common materials such as metals and ceramics, sands and soils, porous energetic materials (explosives, reactive mixtures), and foams exhibit interesting behaviors due to their heterogeneity and critical length scale, typically commensurate with the grain or pore size. Under extreme conditions of impact, granular and porous materials display highly localized phenomena such as ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature

    Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Nature as Teacher, the second volume of the Eco-Technology ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brazil’s Emerging Role in Global Governance

    Health, Food Security and Bioenergy

    by M. Fraundorfer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Road from Empire to Eco-Democracy

    by Gene Marshall ...
    An examination of Social Awakenment, History-Long Vision, Holistic Social Understanding & Strategies of TransformationAs viewed by five United States Citizens in 2011 Lead author Gene Marshall with coauthors, Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan RichardThough vast changes are necessary, we believe humanity can find a vision and plan of action that is both satisfying and realistic. Our ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence

    Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy

    by Peter Tangney ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that experts can provide impartial and usable advice to government so that problems like climate change ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reframing the Problem of Climate Change

    From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions

    by Klaus Hasselmann, Carlo Jaeger, Gerd Leipold, Diana Mangalagiu, Joan David Tàbara ...
    This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field. It also gives an important and original perspective on interpreting climate action and provides compelling evidence of the weakness of arguments that frame climate policy as a win-or-lose ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Organization of Global Negotiations

    Constructing the Climate Change Regime

    by Joanna Depledge ...
    The basic assumption of this book is that the organization of a negotiation process matters.The global negotiations on climate change involve over 180 countries and innumerable observers and other participants, addressing enormously complex and economically vital issues with conflicting agendas. For the UN to create an effective and well-supported international regime has required enormous and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Development Asia—Climate Change: The Fight for Asia's Future

    June 2008

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Development Asia
    Development Asia aims to make a significant contribution to raising awareness and understanding of the issues that matter most today. It is not an academic journal; nor is it a publication that presents the views of the Asian Development Bank. It is intended as a forum for debate and discussion, reflecting different views of the most topical and complex development issues in the region. This ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Climate Change Policy and Carbon Markets

    Transition to a New Era

    by Richard H. Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, Richard Rosenzweig, describes the policies proposed and adopted in the first generation of climate change policy-making including the Kyoto Protocol and the carbon markets and assesses their failure to halt the increases of rising emissions of greenhouse gases. Carefully structured throughout, each chapter demonstrate how the first generation of policies failed because they were top ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Understanding Environmental Policy

    by Steven Cohen ...
    The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving leaks in underground storage tanks, toxic waste cleanup, and the effects of global climate change.This second ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Insurance

    Disaster Risk Financing in Developing Countries

    by Eugene N. Gurenko ...
    Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels. Most at risk are developing countries who, despite considerable post-disaster donor aid, have been bearing the major brunt of disaster-related losses. One adaptation solution that is rapidly gaining the support of countries and international donors is ... Read more

    $67.99 USD